Xerxes lived from 520 to 465BC. He was the grandson of Cyrus and son of Darius. Xerxes was put into succession according to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus‚ as Xerxes was the first son of Darius’s wife Atossa. Xerxes father Darius 1 died in 486BC‚ and this is where Xerxes took over for his father and became king. Xerxes continued his father strategy of consolidating and tightening control of the empire‚ particularly in Egypt‚ Babylon and Asiatic Greece. Xerxes felt he needed to invade Greece
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Abdulaziz Alrediny History (Core 102) 06 – 05 – 2012 Professor: M. Swanson Funeral Oration by Pericles In the Aftermath of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta‚ Pericles‚ Athens’ general and statesmen‚ delivered a powerfully comforting eulogy to the polis of Athens‚ assuring the people that their city state is in good hands‚ and easing the pain of all the families and relatives of the deceased. He uses several rhetorical devices throughout his speech to gain a positive
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Lysistrata The Peloponnesian war has been going on for eighteen long years and the beautiful Lysistrata in common with the other wives of Athens‚ is tired of the absence of their warrior husbands. She decides that it is time to bring an end to this situation by boycotting their husbands from their wives love. Lysistrata gathered the women of Athens and told them about her plan of how she’s going to end this situation and some of the women argued over and over‚ but the beautiful Lysistrata managed
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Andrew Makarian History 105 - 1002 Essay 2 In the history of western civilization were there any significant changes in the roles of women and in how these were defined? Women: cant live with them. Cant live without them. An old adage that pokes fun‚ yet is telling in its statement about how men view women. This sense of incompatibility curtails the differential roles men and women have played throughout history. The separation of sexes into distinct roles has inherently made them unequal
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cruel way of life that lead to the greatest‚ hardest‚ and most disciplined warrior ’s who ever existed in the ancient world. Spartans had to prove their fitness even as infants. Infanticide was a disturbingly common act in the ancient world‚ but in Sparta this practice was
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Ancient Greece Greece today is very different from what it was centuries ago. The beliefs are the same and the Gods who once ruled still live among in myths and tales told from generation to generation. Ancient Greece made many influential contributions to western civilization such as in the areas of philosophy‚ art‚ architecture‚ math and science. All of the achievements that ancient Greece has made was done simultaneously while fighting two wars‚ the Peloponnesian war and the Persian war. Greek
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Greek- city-states By looking at oligarchy‚ democracy and military governments developed from overrule of tyrants from the Archaic to the Classical periods‚ it is apparent that Greece was in need of political unification. It was certain that Greece was in need of political alliance; however it was an impossible goal to achieve for many eras. The first clue to the non-political union was the explosion of population during the archaic period. Once‚ the city-states‚ polis‚ were established‚ many
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When they got their the barbarians were attacked by the athenians and lost. Also the Battle of Thermopylae was fought against the city states. Was the most symbolic struggles in history. The battle began Iran 480 B.C. All of the defenders of sparta were killed because they were outnumber. The Greeks met the persian army in small road between Thessaly and Central Greece. The spartan king Leonidas
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Hypothesis: The main aim of a Spartan youth’s upbringing was to produce a professional warrior who was‚ physically fit‚ capable of enduring pain and hardship‚ obedient and disciplined‚ loyal to his fellow homoioi‚ devoted to Sparta and willing to die in battle if necessary. All of this was essential to keeping the helot slaves‚ who outnumbered them massively‚ under control. There was certainly brutality in the Agoge and boys were undeniably trained to think identically on many matters‚ not whether
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"Let us‚ therefore‚ reflect; let us consider our situation and see how we stand…. May your desire to educate yourself be crowned with success”. The part which struck me most is where Rizal made mention of a situation to one of the mothers of Sparta‚ handed the shield to her son who said nothing but to return triumph or return dead. I find the scenario a bit heartbreaking and ironic when the other Spartan mother was told by a soldier that her three sons had died and replied that she was not asking
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